Prostitution Thailand: New Soi 6 Bar Raid Uncovers Under-age Sex, Prostitutionbreakingasia.com - Arvin Donguines A new raid conducted by the special administrative department of Pattaya, in Thailand uncovers jarring evidence of prostitution and under-age sex …
Maria Ressa Bleak or Bright: The Future of Maria Ressabreakingasia.com - MJ Toledo Get to know who Maria Ressa is, the most controversial and talked- about journalist in the Philippines and the future that awaits herThe post Bleak …
Technology Exclusive: Google Banned Major Chinese App Developer CooTek From The Play Store And Its Ad Platformsbuzzfeednews.com - Craig Silverman CooTek apps continued to bombard users with disruptive ads even after the company said it had stopped. Google is banning CooTek, a publicly traded …
News (China) China gives school pupils smart watches to track their location using its satellite navigation system BeiDouscmp.com - Ann Cao China has given nearly 17,000 children free smart watches in the latest example of its expanding use of BeiDou, its answer to GPS.Primary school …
Entertainment People Are Saying "The Farewell" Is The Best Movie Of The Year And Here's WhyBuzzFeed - Patrice Peck "The Farewell entertained me, gave me love, and destroyed me!"
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoXinjiang China appreciates 37 foreign ambassadors' joint letter supporting Xinjiang policyglobaltimes.cn China on Monday voiced appreciation of a letter jointly signed by 37 foreign ambassadors to UN at Geneva supporting China's position on issues …
Susan Rice Susan Rice calls Chinese diplomat Zhao Lijian ‘a racist disgrace’ after Twitter tiradescmp.com - Laura Zhou A war of words has broken out between a former US national security adviser and China’s deputy chief of mission in Pakistan, with Susan Rice calling …
Stockholm What’s Holding Back “International” Love of China’s High Speed Railway Network?medium.com - David Feng China has a pretty wicked High Speed railway network. It’s got the world’s fastest trains (conventional wheeled ones anyway) and also the largest …
HBO HBO’s Invisible Stories on life in Singapore’s public housing shows the city beneath the glitterscmp.com - Andrew Sun It seems not all Singaporeans are crazy rich Asians. There are some that don’t shop at Marina Bay Sands. Most do not live in Peranakan mansions. …
University of Hong Kong We need to bring hope back into the lives of young Hongkongersscmp.com - Jenny Huen Hopelessness has been found to be a major risk factor for suicide. While it’s sad that a few might have been driven to despair by recent events, we …
Rodrigo Duterte Philippine drug war critics hope U.N. probe can dent Duterte's deadly campaignReuters - By Eloisa Lopez and Martin PettyMANILA (Reuters) - When Jocelyn Marquez found her missing son, he was in a Manila morgue, his body riddled with bullet wounds. John Ryan Marquez, 24, was shot dead at the weekend by Philippine police said
Joko Widodo All smiles as Indonesia’s Joko Widodo and defeated rival Prabowo Subianto take public MRT ride together in Jakartascmp.com - Associated Press Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo and his defeated election rival met on Saturday for the first time since the divisive April poll, as they rode …
News (U.S.) Donald Trump risks undoing decades of nuclear arms controlThe Economist His foray into North Korea belies the gamble he is taking with Russia ON JUNE 30TH, when President Donald Trump took a few paces inside North Korean …
China Xinhua News @XHNewspscp.tv - Twitter Inc 10,000 people performing Kung Fu in changing formation, robots practicing martial arts... An eye-opening performance is staged at Shaolin Temple …
News (China) 6 killed, around 900,000 affected by floods in India's Assam state - Xinhua |xinhuanet.com Villagers carry sandbags to fight agaist floods at Baksa in Assam state, India, July 13, 2019. Nearly one million people have been affected by …
Climate India’s Water Crisis Is Man-MadeBloomberg - Mihir Sharma One of India’s largest cities, Chennai, is dealing with a crippling crisis: It has run out of water. In the middle of a particularly hot summer, the …
Philippines Everything You Need to Know About Ube, the Purple YamChowhound - Margaret Sutherlin If you’ve been watching Instagram at all for the past couple years, you’ll notice there’s one trend that still seems to be popping up everywhere. …
Asia Pyongyang calling: how North Korea pressures defectors to the Southscmp.com Ju Gyung-bae’s sister defected to South Korea but was pressured to return. She turned herself in at the North Korean embassy in Beijing.
Investing Trump-China Trade Tensions Hit Panama Canal RevenuesBloomberg - Michael D McDonald Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. The trade tension between the U.S. and China is …
Japan Japanese pop star Mayu Tomita sues government for inaction over stalker who stabbed herCNN - By Yoko Wakatsuki and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN(CNN) — A Japanese pop star who was stabbed dozens of times by an obsessed fan-turned-stalker is suing the government for not doing enough to protect her. Mayu Tomita filed a lawsuit at the Tokyo District
World Series of Poker Hong Kong’s Danny Tang wins staggering US$1.6 million in World Series of Poker event in Las Vegasscmp.com - Patrick Blennerhassett Hong Kong native Danny Chi Tang knew he was a long shot heading into the final table of Event #90 at the 2019 WSOP, $50,000 Final Fifty No-Limit …
Rihanna Rihanna called out for cultural appropriation over Harper’s BazaarPage Six - By Marisa Dellatto Rihanna haters claim she’s a good girl gone bad after the singer posed in traditional Chinese garb for a new magazine cover. The shots of RiRi …
Laos The Only Way to End Corruption in Laosthediplomat.com - Prashanth Parameswaran A true elimination of the problem will only come with broader political change in the country.
News (China) Why issue of forced technology transfer is so vital for China and the United Statesscmp.com - Liu Jun Technology transfers, especially the allegedly forced ones, have continually been in the crosshairs of the trade disputes between the United States …
China China’s Silicon Valley is transforming China, but not yet the worldThe Economist A huge portion of China’s brain power is concentrated in Zhongguancun AS A TEENAGER, Wang Hanyang was fascinated by the electronics markets of …
Guo Media reports vanish as Chinese socialite Guo Meimei quietly freed from jailscmp.com - Amanda Lee One of China’s most notorious internet celebrities has been freed from jail after serving a five-year term for operating illegal casinos in Beijing, …
South Korea Richest 2019: Pharmaceutical Tycoons See Net Worths Dip As Development Costs IncreaseForbes - Elaine RamirezIncreased competition from multinational pharmaceutical giants and setbacks in launching new drugs dragged down the net worths of South Korea’s richest pharmaceutical tycoons. Competition for anti-cancer
Extreme Trash Recycling: 104 Protocols, 30,000 InspectorsThe Wall Street Journal. - James T. AreddyShanghai has made it illegal to trash clam shells with lobster shells, but porcelain can be thrown out with cigarette butts. Crafty workarounds abound SHANGHAI—China’s financial capital recently joined
Asia In Singapore’s Little India, love is just a shutter click awayscmp.com - Dewey Sim After dolling up M. Kesavan and changing his sandals to dress shoes, photographer K. Sajeev Lal then positioned him against a dreamy, animated …
